Useless Conversation

[Teleku]

I'm officially looking forward to Sierra Leone now, just because there is (almost) no chance of me having to deal with a Presidential visit for the two years I'm there. 

[Paelos]

I'm officially looking forward to Sierra Leone now

I'll take "Things I'll Never Say" for $2000.

[Ironwood]

The bots are swarming today.

[Draegan]

I purposefully stayed away from the Men's Rights thread and never even clicked it. Looks like it's locked. Thank god, I can't imagine the amount of crap that's in there.

[ezrast]

Normally that's my policy for the entire politics forum, but out-of-context posts showing up in the Den always pique my curiosity.

You're not missing anything. But you already knew that.

[Soln]

That thread?  It's like finding day old roadkill and wondering what it once was. 

[Abagadro]

So I am entering another "been doing this for 7 years so I am bored again" phase of my career. Thinking about applying for a judgeship but that means people looking at me and doing politics and stuff, which I hate.

[Signe]

Oooo.  Seven year job itch.  A bit late, but you could always go to India and find yourself.  Or Europe.  Or something.  Why do you need a job, anyway. You're a lawyer. 

I shouldn't say that.  My lawyer is wonderful.  She sweet and funny and just had a baby.  I try not to use a lawyer for the most part because I'm always skint, but she was so worth it, even though I'm still paying off the money I borrowed to retain her.  Gordon called her my "team of lawyers" because there were so many names on the letters, none of which are hers, of course.  I SO couldn't afford a lawyer with an actual name.  I just had her, but I call her Team Jane anyway. 

My last lawyer, years ago, ripped me off.  I hated the fact that I needed one to start with (I was hit from behind by a drunk driver with no license in a tractor trailer carrying a full load of quarry stone) but I had injuries and a squashed car.  When the settlement came in, he cashed it and kept it.  I ratted him out and he lost his license and some lawyer-y fund paid me the money and didn't even keep any of it, so I got more than I needed.  It wasn't that much to begin with and after fixing the car and my broken jaw, there wasn't much left.  He was Swedish, but not nice and savoury like the meatball,  more like the slimy red fish.  Bleh.

Babble over.   

[Nebu]

So I am entering another "been doing this for 7 years so I am bored again" phase of my career. Thinking about applying for a judgeship but that means people looking at me and doing politics and stuff, which I hate.

I totally understand.  I'm a bit more extreme in that I'm pondering a complete career change.  My problem is that whole tenure thing is like heroin.  Once you have it, you never want to give it up.

[RhyssaFireheart]

So I saw this at the gym this morning - woman using those little wipes the gym provides to change the weight pins and on the handles of the machine she was using.  Not to wipe those things down, but to keep her hands from touching the items directly.  If you're that worried about germs, why are you in a public gym?

[Ironwood]

To get fit ?

[Abagadro]

Maximum the Hormone is an awesome band. That is all.

[Phildo]

I have a buddy who picked up an STD from the weight bench at a college gym.  So yeah, those places are gross.

[Nebu]

I have a buddy who picked up an STD from the weight bench at a college gym.  So yeah, those places are gross.

Your buddy lied or had a stupid physician.  They're called STD's for a reason.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Ironwood - my confusion was more for the using wet wipes to hold machine handles and such.  I get that she was there to get fit, presumably.  It just seems like a weird effort to go through when you're at a public gym.  Maybe I'm just not enough of a germophobe to let some things worry me.

And TIL I'm not ready for the ellipticals, at all. 

[Signe]

If I went to a public gym, I would wear gauntlets on my arms and legs and possibly everywhere.  Steel ones, despite the itchy.  And I'm pretty sure I'm not a germophobe.  Or a homophone as my spell checker would have you believe.  I can't even find a word to rhyme with my name let alone homophones.  Anyway, that's why I have my own treadmill and a yoga mat, both of which I haven't used in months.  I rarely go to restaurants, either, because I'm afraid the salty food is sweaty food and I don't want to get a norovirus.  Or an STD.     (I'm much too shy to have sex in a public gym anyway.

[Ironwood]

 


(I knew what your confusion was.  I was being a dick.  Surely you're too old for the sarchasm ?)

[Samwise]

I have a buddy who picked up an STD from the weight bench at a college gym.  So yeah, those places are gross.

Your buddy lied or had a stupid physician.  They're called STD's for a reason.

Guessing it was molluscum contagiosum.  It's often classified as an STD because that's the easiest way to get it, but it's also common among certain types of athletes (anyone who's rubbing their sweaty body against someplace someone else's sweaty body has been recently).

Good things to know if you start dating a weightlifter.   

[RhyssaFireheart]

(I knew what your confusion was.  I was being a dick.  Surely you're too old for the sarchasm ?)

I plead confusion caused by lack of proper sleep and getting up at some ungodly hour to go to the gym and work out.  I'm tired and couldn't avoid the sarchasm in time. 

[Phildo]

Right you are, Samwise.  Now why do you know so much about it, eh?

[Nebu]

Guessing it was molluscum contagiosum.  It's often classified as an STD because that's the easiest way to get it, but it's also common among certain types of athletes (anyone who's rubbing their sweaty body against someplace someone else's sweaty body has been recently).

Good things to know if you start dating a weightlifter.   

I guess that could be considered an STD in the very loosest definition because it is transmitted by contact... but that's pretty thin.

[Samwise]

I dated a weightlifter once.  I thought that was obvious.  

She had the sort of body where if you saw a picture you'd think it was 'shopped.  I have no regrets.

[Nebu]

I dated a weightlifter once.  I thought that was obvious.  

She had the sort of body where if you saw a picture you'd think it was 'shopped.  I have no regrets.

My ex-wife was a model.  She once told me that she kept her figure using the "ane" diet.  When I asked, she explained that the "ane" diet consisted of cocaine and champagne. 

[Pennilenko]

My ex-wife was a model.  She once told me that she kept her figure using the "ane" diet.  When I asked, she explained that the "ane" diet consisted of cocaine and champagne. 

Sounds like a keeper.

[Nebu]

Sounds like a keeper.

Hence the "ex" part.  Beautiful only covers up the 'narcissistic bitch' part for so long.

[Merusk]

I'd have thought the first warning sign was the "Model" part.

[Phildo]

I used to live with a photographer.  Models be cray.

[schild]

You can say you lived with Ookii. Also, it wasn't just models. You were in Arizona.

Of course they were fucking crazy. Arizona is a prison you enter voluntarily.

[Signe]

Ookii is lovely.  Mysterious and spooky. 

[Ironwood]

My brother lives in Moncton with his Canadian wife.

It appears to have become more interesting in the last 12 hours.

[Bunk]

Holy shit. That is not a typical New Brunswick occurrence. 

[Ironwood]

Indeed.

[murdoc]

Yeah, that's pretty bad news. Sounds like all of Moncton has been shut down.

[Ironwood]

Pretty much.  Still haven't caught him.

[Miasma]

That's because we don't have enough good guys with guns.